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On March 29, the NA Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov met with a group of students from Yerevan State University and Khachatur Abovyan State Pedagogical University.

At the meeting the key issues were the RA Draft Electoral Code and the electoral processes, and a series of items concerning the Constitutional reforms were discussed.

The NA Deputy Speaker presented the main emphases of the RA Draft Electoral Code and the amendments being designed, and highlighted the increase of the public trust and the escalation of the control towards the electoral processes, to which, according to him, the Code under revision is mainly directed. In this context, the NA Deputy Speaker touched upon the parties' activities, considered necessary to develop such an electoral system, which can raise the role of the parties. According to Eduard Sharmazanov, that goal is aimed at transformation to proportional electoral system. Eduard Sharmazanov has noted that revising the Draft Code meeting-debates with different political forces and civil society is carried out, and all constructive proposals are taken into consideration.

During the warm and immediate talk the students addressed numerous questions to the NA Deputy Speaker, which mainly related to the power-opposition cooperation, the provisions of the RA Draft Electoral Code, the proxies, the representation of the national minorities' representatives in the future parliament and other issues.